Many folks have asked me, because I used to work in Wall Street doing similar things, about the Macro Millionaire Coaching Program offered by Mad  Hedge Fund Trader John Thomas. I give it two thumbs up. In fact his track record in December through January, as I write this, is up over 25% on a portfolio already. This is outstanding. It’s one reason why I recommended him for folks to look at.

But that is not the main reason why I introduced him to blog readers…it was because of quality. Rememeber I try to tell you thinks others are not telling you — how the world really works — and so this is a voice of reason. I once told you about the recession we were in far before the governemnt had to admit it, and now I will tell you we are not out of it. What looks like “being out” is just a paper balloon that will suddenly pop and send us down worse than before sometime later this year.

You have to listen to what John Thomas says about the future trends of the US economy, interest rates, jobs and real estate. Bernanke is probably not sleeping at night because of these worries … basically jobs are not coming back without manufacturing returning, as I tell you over and over again. Obama just admitted as much on TV. But “rah, rah the US is great and we will overcome the challenge”, as he likes to say in speeches,  will not do anything.  In fact, I have a book coming out later on exactly what the US needs to do to prevent standards of living from falling and becoming more like a Third World country over the next 8-10 years, which WILL HAPPEN.

In any case, John Thomas, the Macro Millionaire expert of global macro hedge fund trading trends, has just released a new video you might want to watch: Six Major Trends for 2011 That Will Make You Rich or Miserable

If you are interested in the Macro Millionaire Coaching Program, click on this link to find out more information here including his track record, experience qualifications, world views, how to trade like a hedge fund, and so forth:

 ==> Macro Millionaire Coaching Program

Most of all, educate yourself, and have your friends watch this. Clip the link, send and have them learn. More jobs will be lost over the next five years, not gained. Real estate will continue to fall, just as I said. When interest rates finally rise, which MUST happen, the economy will tank. Inflation will rise in the meantime. And …

On and on it will go. This happens once every 60-some years, but this time what was supposed to happen in 1987 was inflated away, and because of that piling on of monetary expansion and inflation over twenty years, the final deflation of asset prices will be severe.

I expect a bottom in either 2012 or late 2014/early 2015 (not later) so watch the videos and start learning how to think like a hedge fund manager rather than an empty talking head on television. With John Thomas you have a chance to get rich in 2011 or be miserable. Funny title, but a little true. The right trend always makes money and the unexpected bear that hits the public always empties wallets and IRA funds and so forth. Hopefully this info will help.

Our new book is released – Spiritual Paths and their Meditation Technqiues. It is a rewrite, in paperback form, of the Insider’s Guide to  the Best and Worst Spiritual Practices. The price goes up in December, so get your copy now:

With the economy in the doldrums, many people are wondering how next year will fare. Personal fortunes are fated to rise and fall. They can be great in bad times, and then bad in great times. A great fortune can turn sour overnight, and a bad one can turn beautific. This is why sages of all religions tell us to persevere, never to do wrong, and to always do good in order to avoid the creation of bad karmic returns and maximize our states of good fortune. Does next year hold good fortune or bad fortune in store, and how do you transform it? A Karma Calculator fortune can tell you. That’s why I bothered to bring this technique to America from Asia.

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Many people ask me how to get started with the white skeleton visualization method. Well, it’s Halloween, so there’s a very simple method: buy some skeleton socks, also called “bone socks.” One of the hardest areas to cultivate in the body is the foot, and these socks have pictures of the bones in the feet that you can use to help with your skeleton visualization so that the chi channels will open to the feet.

http://amzn.to/c2bQEP

Trust me, it will help to have these as a visualization aide. When you’re sitting there watching TV at home, you can just glance down at your socks and remember that you can do the skeleton visualziation at the same time. I wish I had this inexpensive thing when I started. And it’s practical, too.

You can now even buy skeleton shirts, gloves and stockings that will help you master this meditation technique that opens the chi channels through the body and helps raise your yang chi. It’s a lot easier to wear something with a skeleton on it to help you with your visualziation practice. And since it’s Halloween, you’ll have a perfect excuse for wearing them as it’s the seasonal mood. Not just that, it gives you a little bit extra character and something to talk about.

Anything inexpensive like this that can help you get started with cultivation or deepen your cultivation is a plus in my book. Here’s the amazon.com link:

http://amzn.to/c2bQEP

http://www.meditationexpert.com/blog/2010/09/skeleton-socks/

P.S. In my new book coming out soon in paperback, “The Little Book of Hercules,” I go over time and again how important it is to open up the chi channels to the bottom of the feet and how this was emphasized in many cultures and myths, including in the Greek, Egyptian, Indian and Chinese cultures. The story of the crab pinching Hercules’ heel as he fought the 9-headed hydra, the winged sandals of Perseus, the baby Dictys whom Isis held by the heel in order to turn him immortal, the Tao school stories of flying immortals … many stories tell how hard it is to open up the chi channels into the feet, which will extend your longevity. Hence the skeleton or bone socks. Fun stuff too!

Here are some samples:

I always love watching this video because his talk is very funny.

Teenagers are always into some new fad. The new one seems to be i-dosing:

http://lifehacker.com/398342/i-dose-sends-binaural-beats-to-your-brain

The I Dose website (http://www.i-dose.us/) offers several downloadable binaural beat music designed to alter your thoughts/mood. Some progams, like Holosync, use the technology to train people in meditation. In this case, however, the target is different.

I-Dose has offerings such as:

Quit Smoking
Energy Increase
Weight Loss
Aspirin
Intelligence Increase
PMS relief
Lucid Dreams
and so on…

Sorry folks. I’ve investigated all sorts of programs and modalities for most all the categories of recordings offering. Everything from self-hypnosis to astral projection audios to subliminal suggestions and more… probably about a dozen or so modalities including physical, electronical, vibrational and chemical means such as laser lights, electronic stimulators, radionic machines, homeopathics, herbs, etc.

Nothing works except cultivation. If you want to tune out the world, by all means spend your $9.99 for a download but I’d devote myself to meditation instead and solve a whole host of problems, including really balancing myself. None of this stuff will help you increase your intellgience, make a migraine headache go away, astral project, lose weight, turn off depression, … Great marketing names for the website, but that’s it.

These recordings just aiaren’t going to do it. You want to enter an altered state? You have to cultivate samadhi through meditation. You’ll encounter plenty of spiritual gong-fu and “altered states” of non-ordinary consciousness. Mantra recitation, or japa practice, is the single best way to do it if you want to use sound, and it usually takes months of effort to change your chi and consciousness that way.

But teenagers will be teenagers, and often want to rebel or do anything that is anti-establishment or status quo. Folks, just turn to meditation and truly get something out of it. Sages from countless religions have told you to recite mantras for the very things you want, and yet people always turn to this sort of nonsense, as well as crystals, magnets, channeling, shamans, seances, etc. They’re just useless fads. But it’s your dollar. Go enjoy.

LifeHacker suggest that if you’re looking for binaural beats or white noise, check out SBaGen or SimplyNoise.

I always tell people to THINK. They want to succeed in meditation and spirituality, but the field has so many nebulous claims that you need logic to think things through. Thus I tell them to sharpen their wits on real world topics. That’s the reason I bring up real world politics all the time. THINK here, don’t put “love the whole way round” on issues and blind yourself to what’s going on.

If you fail at making the right conclusions on real world issues, then to me I give you little chance to really be able to differentiate so many claims in the spiritual field. You will just be captured by prejudices of your race, religion, country and so on.

So here’s something to think about — draw your own conclusions:

http://www.zerohedge.com/article/rust-discovered-bank-russia-issued-999-gold-coins

IF THE STORY IS TRUE, then the Russians are diluting their gold, plain and simple. They either want to make more money, or there is not enough gold to be put in the coins, or corruption is going on somewhere and higher ups didn’t know. There are a lot of possibilities, so drop the conformity view they teach kids in school today, QUESTION and THINK …

Could 100% pure gold rust? No! So the reason is due to something else. And if the Russians are doing this, are others?

There has been much writing over the last several years about central bank gold stocks dwindling, and this calls that to mind.

This is just an interesting bit of science. What did the Big Bang sound like? Well, scientists have created a little bang, and here is a sound recording of the sound:

http://www.newscientist.com/articlevideo/dn18998/89322524001-what-does-the-hottest-matter-ever-made-sound-like.html

Usually I’m not a big fan of optical illusions, but these video optical illusions, especially #1, are first class.

http://illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com/cat/top-10-finalists/2010/#post-2002

Watch it seveal times! Also, the twirling helix got me, too.

I often worndered if there was some way to cultivate that including detaching from optical illusions but never found anything. I suppose it’s the way our brains work. Enjoy

Only great minds can read this This is weird, but interesting!

If you can raed this, you have a sgtrane mnid too

Can you raed this? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can.

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Carol Reed’s “The Third Man” is a film that stars Orson Welles. You’ve heard the theme song for the movie a million times but probably didn’t know it:

What strikes me is one of the quotes from the film, probably the most famous:

“In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed. They produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.”

In times of crisis they say heroes arise.  That’s the meaning. The same lesson comes from Chinese and Roman cutlure as well.